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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬

@casualdarings.bsky.social
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Public health clinical researcher, not a skin doctor. Blue dot in a red state • she/her.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...
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The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
Continued investment in the NIH is essential to fighting current and emerging health threats and to ensuring the U.S. remains a global leader in medical innovation.
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Jfc 🤦‍♀️
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I've got a sudden craving to rewatch the hit show, The Americans, just for a change of pace
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Pearlmania500 @pearlmania500.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The President of the United States is no longer the leader of the free world.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I don't know if anyone else is embarrassed to be an American at this moment.
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Trump Berates Zelensky at White House Meeting: Live Updates (Gift Article)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A historic disgrace, so far no doubt.
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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that a lot of additional people will die because of this.
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RFK Jr. Confirmed as Trump’s Health Secretary: Live Updates
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What is the point of even holding these hearings even if every pick will be confirmed without issue? It's political theater and it's exhausting
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Googling “Constitutional Crisis“
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Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This amounts to a rolling and eventually complete blockade of Congressionally appropriated, peer reviewed, and highly meritorious research to improve the health of all Americans. And to dismantle the biomedical research enterprise that’s led the world for decades and created wealth.
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Contempt charges, when??
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i can be your long lost pal @pallavi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
if i text you this just know you’re cooked
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Serena Williams!
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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 09/02/2025
Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
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World - yesterday

As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more. Thanks to NIH, we have: 💉 Cancer immunotherapy ❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins 🩸 Insulin for diabetes Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of:

malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique

treatment for cholera in Bangladesh

a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi

tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa

nutritional support for children in Ethiopia

early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia

ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan

an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 06/02/2025
Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/02/2025
After an unprecedented pause of three weeks, the CDC has resumed publishing its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). However, three studies about bird flu that were supposed to appear in this edition, remain on hold even as the outbreak spreads.
Notes from the Field: Emergency Department Use During the Los Angeles County Wildfires, January 2025
Weekly / February 6, 2025 / 74(3);40–42

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Emily Kajita, MS, MPH1; Karen Chang, PhD1,2; Vannalyn de Leon, MPH1; Wesley Moss, MPH1; Michael Lim, MPH1; Sharon Balter, MD1; Annabelle de St. Maurice, MD1 (VIEW AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/02/2025
Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/02/2025
Same exact thing.
Alt Text: A black-and-white historical photograph showing a nighttime scene of a Nazi book burning. A crowd of uniformed Nazi officers and civilians stands around a fire where books from the Hirchfeld institute for Sexuality are being burned. These contained the first research into trans people and their healthcare. Many in the crowd perform the Nazi salute, raising their right arms in the air. Thick smoke rises above the flames, and scattered papers or debris litter the ground in front of the blaze.
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
So, at what point is there ground for an emergency injunction? Or, idk any action at all to curb this clearly rogue branch of our government?? You know, the checks and balances of it all...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
What a clown show. 🤡
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White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, in reversal
The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025
this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In the dead of night, an executive order slashing Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, funding for research, and other federally funded programs, was announced. Elected officials and institutions who have not released statements to fight back: YOUR SILENCE IS DEAFENING.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trump just paused all federal spending to our communities. Why? He needs to free up money to give corrupt billionaires and corporations tax cuts. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are cheering him on. The golden age for the richest and the dark ages for working people.
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Executive orders are not laws. They're directives and guidelines at best, the fact that nationwide so many agencies and organizations are choosing to comply is goddamn terrifying.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
washingtonpost.com
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/01/2025
By intentionally naming Trump, TikTok is signaling its intention to be used as a tool to spread right wing propaganda. Extremely disturbing.
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Aleksandra Galušić, MSPH 🧬 @casualdarings.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
They couldn't even keep the charade going long enough to be believable, just blatant political theater, pathetic and transparent bootlicking yet there's so very many people out there who will lap this up. 🤦‍♀️
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/01/2025
one of the most depressing realizations in politics is the day you understand that a lot of people would legitimately prefer to spend more money to make sure nobody “undeserving” gets a benefit than to make it accessible to everyone
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/01/2025
It's concerning that some are trying to normalize RFK. Let's be clear: You can never find common ground with someone responsible for the death of children because they deliberately spread anti-science misinformation.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
There are some who say “your life won’t change much when trump is President” and I get why they’re saying that in the sense that I’m well off and a citizen who was born here to parents who aren’t gonna be deported either, but all else aside fuck yourself, I have a conscience
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